The Israeli Mole
Episode 1
(Thanks to Tomer Israeli)

The contestants
Guy: 26, engineering student
Oded: 22, internet website builder
Israel: 52, engineer
Zehava: 28, zoologist
Eldad: 62, seaman
Ruthy: 43, office manager
Dana: 18, counsellor for kids from broken homes
Sharon: 29, scuba diving instructor
Sigi: 31, music teacher
Doron: 31, manager of insurance company

Day 1
Ten strangers are spread in different points in a road in northern Israel, having to get to a dark room where they will meet, cooperate, and do their first challenge, before even seeing each other. Each of them enters the dark room as they arrive. They have 30 minutes to set the furniture in a certain way in the dark. On the furniture there are notes with their names. They will all be seated in their spots when the mission is over. They enter the room one by one, and already we see a difference in their approaches. Sharon stands still and looks around. She's suspicious. She doesn't answer Eldad who enters right after her and tries to ask her questions. Zehava and Ruthy seem to bond right off. Israel tries to set some strategic system to help putting the furniture, but Oded seems to have more charisma and everyone listens to him instead. The first thing Dana does is trying to look for Sigi in the dark. I don't know why. Maybe because she found Sigi's seat. Private Israeli says: She remembers "that curly haired woman I saw on the bus". Ironically, Sigi and Dana are right next to each other, but they don't know it. Almost everyone is here. But one is missing. They remember the names from a picture of the room. Private Israeli says: they remember the name of the guy who's late: Doron. At some point Doron arrives and joins them. They are done with everything. They put all the furniture in place, but.......... That's when the little hustles start. Someone drops the apples on the floor in the dark. They inquisit Guy about it, asking him repeatedly if he's the one who dropped the apples. After already saying he didn't, he starts to get annoyed by this stupid question. Guy: "Yes, I dropped the apples!" They manage to put the apples back into place. Doron finishes to put them in the bowl and sits down. Suddenly, Israel notices that his pillow is gone. Eventually they find it and put it back where it was. But who really dropped the apples? No one admits. Maybe through the confusion of working in a dark room full of furniture and 9 other people, the person who dropped it didn't notice it. Maybe this person did feel he/she dropped the apples, but was too ashamed to admit, and maybe... it was the Mole. Luckily the pillow is found and the apples are put in their place. The people are seated in their seats. The first challenge is a success! The money is won!
Itai (the host) meets them in the room and tells them that the furniture will be with them every two days. Every two days when they'll gather at a certain place for an execution, the furniture will be set there exactly the way it was the first time, and they'll all sit in their assigned seats.

Second day
Instead of bungee, which is a common "Mole" mission around the world, the group has to go snepling. They go to what is known as "the arched tunnel", and they simply have to hang all the way down to the ground with the climbing equipment. Only catch is, they have to be hanged facing down! By the end of the day all ten have to do it. If one doesn't do it, the mission is a failure. All of the helmets have cameras on them, so they could film the faces of the contestants as they do the challenge. Ruthy and Zehava announce that they won't do it. Guy and Oded, the two young guys in the team, have no trouble doing it. Sigi goes down and try to enjoy every single moment she's in the air. When Dana goes down, she's screaming and shouting like crazy all the way down. Doron goes down, and as he is hanging between heaven and earth he uses the camera to show pictures of his little twin girls. By the way, Doron claims that the day before he forgot the pictures in the car, and ran back to get them. That is the reason that he was late to the dark room that day. Eldad, the oldest guy of the bunch, is not too happy about going down, but he does what he has to do. Ruthy, who refused to go down, is next in the upside-down snepling. she is thrilled when she's done with it, and has a true sense of accomplishment. She shouts up at Zehava, telling her she has to try it. Zehava, the conservative person in the bunch, accepts the verdict and starts to go down. She slowly learns to enjoy that terrifying event. And it is terrifying, but there is a sense of accomplishment for all of them. It's not over yet, though, because they notice Sharon has disappeared. They find out right at the nick of time when she returns. No one knows where she went. She seems edgy, and is terrified of being hanged in the air upside-down. Nevertheless, just like the rest, she goes down, making the original team a winner in their second and final challenge as the original team.
They won all of their missions so far. Friendships were made in these past two days. Zehava and Ruthy hit it off. Dana gets along with Guy, because they are both young, and therefore come from the same world. Guy and Israel get to chat a little bit and become friends. Zehava hates Doron's guts.

Suspicious
Doron is late to the first mission.
Someone drops the apples. Ruthy thinks it's Guy.
Someone took Israel's pillow.
Israel told Ruthy and Zehava that they didn't have to jump if they didn't want to.
Sharon disappears when she is needed. When she shows up finally, and goes down the cliff, she mumbles: "I'm the mole, I'm not the mole. Maybe I am the mole."

Execution
Now they all have to fill in a multiple choice test with questions about the identity of the mole. They all sit in a room with the furniture. Itai starts the execution. Press on the pictures of the contestants to find out who will be the first one to leave:

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